John L. Eastman, Lawyer and Force in Entertainment World, Dies at 83

As Paul McCartney’s longtime representative, he was central to a battle over control of the Beatles’ business empire in the last days of the band.

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Upending Expectations for Indigenous Music, Noisily

After long being consigned to a legacy of stereotypes, Indigenous American artists are making some of the country’s most engaging experimental music.

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Bad Bunny Beats YoungBoy Never Broke Again in a Tight Race for No. 1

Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” falls to No. 3 as the Puerto Rican superstar and the Louisiana rapper battle for the top spot on the Billboard album chart.

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Solange Enters New Territory: Ballet Composer

The multihyphenate pop star will compose her first ballet score for the Fall Fashion Gala at New York City Ballet in September.

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Reckoning With Memories of Budapest

A Times journalist spent three months capturing a contemporary portrait of Hungary’s capital, where he lived for several years as a child in the early ’90s.

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At the Salzburg Festival, Riches, Retreads and Notes of Caution

Classical music’s pre-eminent annual event had more revivals than usual, but also a breathless new staging of Janacek’s “Kat’a Kabanova.”

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R. Kelly Stands Trial in Chicago: What to Know

The musician faces charges of sex crimes and of working to obstruct an earlier investigation that resulted in his acquittal in a 2008 criminal trial.

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An Orchestra Supports Ukraine, and Reunites a Couple Parted by War

“I don’t have a gun, but I have my cello,” a musician says as he joins the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, which is made up of refugees who fled the war and artists who stayed behind.

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How a Jazz Musician and Entrepreneur Spends His Sundays

Matthew Garrison codes, composes, performs and produces as he pushes the boundaries of music.

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Pop’s Material Girls, Rich With Influence

Questions about borrowing, authorship and inspiration — from the underground to the mainstream and vice versa — connect new releases from Beyoncé, Madonna and Saucy Santana.

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